Playing back Freeview TS files in Vista Media Center?

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AceVPD

137 posts

Master Geek

#21646 3-May-2008 07:57

Hi

I am still waiting for my HVR2200 tuner to arrive so at this stage I'm only playing around the sample files supplied by Fossie.

I found a registry change which allowed media player & center to be able to play them back & once I changed the 'open with..' settings in windows the TS videos appear when browsing in MC. The 576i Indy Jones plays fine with sound & picture. The upscaled 720P TVNZ Rugby clip plays with picture & no sound & the CSI 1080i clip plays with sound & no picture. Bummer. All of them play with hardware acceleration in PowerDVD

Can anyone help get these to play properly? I think it would help with the 'WAF' if I can get these to play in MC

thanks

HTPC: 3G P4, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 8500GT, HVR 2200 (for FreeviewHD), 2x Hauppauge PVR-150 (1 for analog TV + 1 for AV input), Windows 7
Display: 42" Panasonic Plasma
Blu Ray/Games: PS3

ajst2duk

170 posts

Master Geek

#128109 3-May-2008 08:07

In all honesty, until VMC is updated supposedly later this year, you will be better off getting something like GBPVR set up as it works well with DVB-T here. Once it is set up, it is a breeze, all my family use it now and that's saying something.

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AceVPD

137 posts

Master Geek

#128245 3-May-2008 18:06

Since I don't watch that much live TV now days, what I was hoping to be able to do was set DVB Viewer to record the shows I want & then play them back from MC.

Might give GBPVR a go though if I can't find a solution.

HTPC: 3G P4, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 8500GT, HVR 2200 (for FreeviewHD), 2x Hauppauge PVR-150 (1 for analog TV + 1 for AV input), Windows 7
Display: 42" Panasonic Plasma
Blu Ray/Games: PS3

AceVPD

137 posts

Master Geek

#128497 4-May-2008 22:52

GBPVR doesnt look too bad. Seems to have the same funtions as media center, it just doesnt look as pretty. One issue I had was when using my mce remote it would open mc with some keyp presses eg. guide. Any way to stop mc?

How stable have you found it to be?

HTPC: 3G P4, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 8500GT, HVR 2200 (for FreeviewHD), 2x Hauppauge PVR-150 (1 for analog TV + 1 for AV input), Windows 7
Display: 42" Panasonic Plasma
Blu Ray/Games: PS3

66sayegh

31 posts

Geek

#128516 5-May-2008 08:50

I found that after I installed PDVD 8, all those clips and TV recorded by DVBViewer would play in VMC, but I had to (1) make the registry edits to cause .ts files to be perceived as video, and (2) tweak the filter merits so that PDVD 8 filters were chosen by default before the PDVD 7 ones.

I have found DVBViewer to be pretty good.

AceVPD

137 posts

Master Geek

#128544 5-May-2008 10:34

by changing the merits do you mean using Vista media center decoder utility to change the default codec or is there something else I need to do?

HTPC: 3G P4, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 8500GT, HVR 2200 (for FreeviewHD), 2x Hauppauge PVR-150 (1 for analog TV + 1 for AV input), Windows 7
Display: 42" Panasonic Plasma
Blu Ray/Games: PS3

66sayegh

31 posts

Geek

#128734 6-May-2008 09:53

No, I used Gspot to change the filter merit (there are a number of other programs that will do it too). I found that on my system PowerDVD 7 filters had slightly elevated merit (If 600000 is normal merit, they had 600002; I think some third party program may have done this) - I just adjusted them down to normal and one PowerDVD 8 filter had a merit of unilkely - raised this to normal. Then I opened the ts file in graphedit or graphstudio to ensure that the PowerDVD 8 filters were used, and it would play.

I did have PowerDVD as my preferred video filter for VMC, but last time I looked it seemed to have reverted back to MS - perhaps by SP1. Haven't changed it back yet. To view the recorded ts files I save them to Users\Public\Videos - you can't see them in Recorded TV even with the registry hack it seems. There is no auto generated thumbnail but I found a jpg of the same name as the ts will display as the thumb in My Videos. I have code for a program that will grab a jpg from a designated frame of a video, but it won't work for H264 files and I'm not sure I want to delve into this - may be quicker to wait for the alleged VMC update. Or just watch them in DVBViewer!

Also after PowerDVD 8, I found I could load the recorded ts files in Vista Movie Maker, and edit out ads, save the projerct and burn it with Vista DVD Maker.

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AceVPD

137 posts

Master Geek

#128739 6-May-2008 10:08

Cool, thanks for the info. I'll have a play around with these tonight

thanks!

HTPC: 3G P4, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 8500GT, HVR 2200 (for FreeviewHD), 2x Hauppauge PVR-150 (1 for analog TV + 1 for AV input), Windows 7
Display: 42" Panasonic Plasma
Blu Ray/Games: PS3